At present, the treatment of expired medicines mainly involves burning, which means waste of resources and carbon dioxide emissions, and it does not comply with the concept of resource recycling. In this study, in order to explore the resource utilization pathways of expired medicines, progesterone drugs were evaluated as crude oil flow improvers as an example. The results shows that progesterone injection (PI) and progesterone capsule (PC) both act as viscosity reducer and pour point depressant in different crude oil, and 500 ppm PI and 300 ppm PC are the best dosage respectively.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPolystyrene is used in a wide range of applications in our lives, from machine housings to plastic cups and miniature electronic devices. When polystyrene is used, a large amount of waste is produced, which can cause pollution to the environment and even harm biological and human health. Due to its low bulk density (especially the foamed type) and low residual value, polystyrene cannot be easily recycled.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChromatographic retention index (RI) is an important parameter for describing the retention behavior of substances in chromatographic analysis. Experimentally determining the RI values of different aldehyde and ketone compounds in all kinds of polar stationary phases is expensive and time consuming. Quantitative structure activity relationship (QSAR) is an important chemometric technique that has been widely used to correlate the properties of chemicals to their molecular structures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) models for predicting the octane number (ON) of toluene primary reference fuel (TPRF; blends of -heptane, isooctane, and toluene) was investigated. The electrotopological state (E-state) index of TPRF components was computed and weight-summed to generate the quantitative descriptor of TPRF samples. The partial least squares (PLS) technique was used to build up the regression model between the ON and weight-summed E-state index of the investigated samples.
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